Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is facing a potentially serious challenge to his hold on power as momentum builds behind Chris Van Hollen, with the Maryland senator now reportedly open to a run for majority leader.
A movement to draft Van Hollen to challenge Schumer is gaining steam, according to Politico Playbook, which reported Monday that two people close to the effort said it was underway.
A person familiar with Van Hollen’s thinking told the outlet that the senator has “received an outpouring of calls and is now in active listening mode.”
Chuck Schumer or the senator who tried to enter CECOT in El Salvador.
That’s good news! Timothy Snyder has just done a whole series of talks with existing and newly elected congresspeople that are really good, called Now We Act. He’s asking all the right questions and pointing out that not only do the people want accountability, affordability depends on accountability and they are intertwined.
Here’s his interview with Chris Van Hollen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kvYxsRiJmE Mark Kelly’s is also good. I’ve just watched a few so far but I’m starting to feel a sense of hope watching this series.
So I’m really glad to hear that Van Hollen may come around and be willing to do it, after saying he wasn’t considering it earlier. Not only would he be good at the job, but hey it’s the ones who are reluctant that make the best leaders since they’re not doing it out of ambition but out of a sense of duty.
As long as the leadership appointment process is undemocratic, the party’s choice will be unacceptable. The leadership must be purged, the rules of the party election process must be thrown out and revised. This is the only way to stop the political pendulum from swinging back and forth between the two parties.
Future in doubt? The man is 75. Going home and retiring on your (dubiously-gotten) riches is the American dream. Just do that. That’s not future in doubt. That’s success coming to fruition. Fuck this staying in power until you’re literally in a coffin.
I hear the Bailey’s are pushing for Van Hollen.
How is Schuner not considered a generational failure after 2024?
They lost a supermajority to a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and the star of the Epstein files.
Do you remember the 2016 DNC convention shenanigans?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
The committee holds all the power in there, and the DNC is about as from “Democratic” as you could find. Fuck the super-delegate system, etc. etc. etc.
To play devil’s advocate, the super-delegate system wasn’t decisive in Hillary’s victory. Jacobin has a good article on this that’s for some reason a pain in the ass to find, but the short of it is that 2020 was actually worse on the ratfucking front. Aside from the usual bullshit with mainstream media and funding, one thing they did was be deliberately irresponsible with primary dates in the middle of the pandemic to depress turnout, which favored Biden at the cost of literally getting their constituents killed.
And 2024 was basically a kingmaker play when there was an actual convention coming up after they convinced Biden to step down. Could have had a democratic selection of the candidate then, but fuck no.
The current DNC Chair supported progressive candidates.
The DNC isn’t the same DNC is was in 2016. Or 2020. Or 2024.
good then it can be further not like then by kicking shumer and jefferies out of their chairs!
Congress makes that decision. If you have a democratic representativenin the house or Senate. Call them. Write them a letter. Go to their local office in your city if you can.
The current DNC chair supports taking
bribesdonations from “good billionaires”, it’s the same DNC as always but with a fresh vaneer of progressive ideals.
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries need to go. If they remains, an awful lot of people who voted democrat will feel stabbed in the back - and with good reason.
The first and biggest hurdle is that you need people who are not only able but willing to do the job. Not many people want it.
That, to me, is the bar. If someone wants to lead, wants power, wants to be famous etc, they are unqualified. Because it means they really did not understand the job.
Google says there’s only ever been 1 president who was speaker and 1 who was senate majority leader. Accepting these roles seems like a career death sentence.
Many career politicians do not want to run for nor be president. Senate or House leader is a peak political position
Our politicians are chosen to be weak, the corporos fear the left, somehow not so much the right, despite history, preferring the total ruin of dictatorship and ultimate military rule to moderate reform. Such as it’s always been. From the late roman republic, to germany with the nazis, to now.
Plenty of people want the job, of senator, but any white populist is simply not welcome and will be character assassinated if not killed in the cradle, because they can challenge the leadership, where the inner city minority populists cannot.
That’s the fucking truth.
but any white populist is simply not welcome and will be character assassinated if not killed in the cradle, because they can challenge the leadership, where the inner city minority populists cannot.
Nice barely veiled racism
That is too stupid to refute, unless you describe how that is racist, and whom it is racist against, white people? Praytell!
agreed. If they stay we lose the voters then the presidency and congress again in 2028.
I, for one, would never vote Democrat again. If they leave the masked goons hunting us in the street, if they continue to enable genocide, any of the centrist bullshit currently being floated around, they are fucking dead to me.
The reality of the US political system is that the only way to move left in America is via the Primaries. Until there’s another Tea Party to break up the right vote, the only way to keep the status quo or move the window is to primary in DSA candidates and break the hold of the apparatchik in the Democrat establishment.
The truth is Democrats aren’t going to do shit to “save democracy,” and anyone who thinks or thought they were is delusional.
Notice, the Democrats never ran on how exactly they were going to save democracy. The reason they didn’t is that saving democracy is incredibly unpopular. If you actually want to save democracy, you have to pass very unpopular laws.
Mainly, you need to strip the presidency of all the emergency powers Congress has given it over the years, dismantle the post-9/11 security and surveillance state, and disband ICE.
Here is the problem. Doing any of these things will literally get Americans killed. If you dismantle the unconstitutional mass spying apparatus, inevitably, eventually, there’s going to be some terrorist attack that occurs that that spying could have prevented. If you disband ICE, inevitably some person who happens to be an illegal immigrant is going to kill some white woman, and it will be found out that ICE would have deported them before it happened.
In these cases, I would argue that the deaths are worth it. I am absolutely willing to trade some safety for freedom. Freedom is worth fighting for; it’s worth dying for. It’s worth seeing innocent people die for it.
That’s the core problem. The tools of a dictator are also the tools of ordinary law enforcement. If you strip away the dictator’s toolkit, you also disempower law enforcement, which means some otherwise preventable crimes will happen. And your political opposition can latch onto those few rare cases and crucify you with them.
This is why Democrats cannot save democracy. Ultimately, they are complete cowards. Saving democracy requires courage and conviction. It requires a politician to look the voters dead in the eyes and say, “some of your children are going to die because of this bill I am proposing, and that is an acceptable loss I am willing to pay to ensure our children get to live in a democracy.”
I’ve never seen a Democrat running on that kind of message. But that’s what it would take to actually save democracy. And this is why it will not be done.
The innocent lives lost to criminals should be weighed against the innocent lives lost to these law enforcement groups enabled by the spying apparatus.
That’s not something any Democrat would ever do.
That’ll stop the fascists.
A lot of folks feel like OP.
The dems won this time, but the folks who voted for them are in essence holding a gun to their heads: they’d better get their act together and deliver, or else.
The minute the dems step out of line, the voters will turn on them faster than you can say “Traitors… Hold my beer” and vote MAGA en mass as a violent epidermic reaction. And keeping fucking Schumer and fucking Jeffries around would be the first sign of treason.
Nobody, NOBODY likes the dems. The only reason they won is because people like lying demented orange billionaire grafter pedophiles even less.
Yes, I’m of the opinion that if Dems don’t perform, the government won’t be the only one ignoring “Due Process”.
Because supporting moderate democrats has stopped the fascists so well?
Don’t vote shame people bro. You are wrong.
Probably not, but moving to another country will.
MAGA thanks you for your vote. Socialist > DSA > Dems > Reps
So stick with the status quo centrists because thats such a winning thing, is what you are saying eh habitualcynic.
So bold. Because centrism was winning so hard, right.Vote for progressive candidates in the Dem primary. Help them win, and you don’t have to vote for centrist fucks. But if the progressives doesn’t win, vote the dem anyway because it’s less damaging.
Precisely. They either don’t understand strategy or they are Russian trolls supporting the fascists.
Do you care more about personal strategy or the well being of an entire nation? Long term thinking prevents democratic votes more than anything.
Such a childish statement.
FUCK CHUCK
GET REAMED, HAKEEM
I would recommend contacting your house representative which you can find here: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Also contact your state senators. If any of these state officers changed from the 2026 election, contact both the current and senator/representative elects who will be taking office in January.
Let each of them know that you want Schumer and Jeffries gone and you want for the Trump administration: justice, investigations, and the immediate release of the Epstein files.
Edit: note that someone downvoted this. https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.world/comment/26782113
Also contact your state senators.
Sigh. I live in Pennsylvania.
My condolences
Based on everything coming out it seems Hakeem has massive support in the caucus. So much so that no one even wants to give the idea that they don’t support him.
Schumer on the other hand sounds like his support isn’t as wide spread.
I saw a breakdown on the process, and it would take 20 Senators to vote against, and that’s highly unlikely.
One down, Hakeem to go.
An old ham sandwich has more support than Schumer, pick literally any other senator
The monkey’s paw curls: Fetterman is now the Senate Majority Leader.
Monkey’s paw turns into a fist: Mitch McConnell remains Senate Majority Leader
He’s can’t be the senate Majority leader, he’s already keeper of the crypt.
McConnell pulls a reverse-Fetterman and becomes a democrat.
Mitch has been completely silent on this issue, so you may be right
I’m pretty sure he’s unable to speak.
Can’t really call him a zombie since a zombie moves more than bitch
Hey if DSA can pick the aide who tells him which way to vote, still better than Schumer
Now I’m curious if he has to sign something do the aides sign it for him? Because I doubt he can even make an x on a piece of paper in his state.
He can drool on it.
Mitch’s term ends next year, so he won’t be eligible. Darn! Also, he’s not Senate Majority Leader even now.
I hadn’t seen him outside of like a photo after his “re-appearence” or whatever. My spouse showed me a video short of him yesterday with a journalist asking him what his thoughts are about the Republicans losing so many seats and how it will effect Trumps actions in the upcoming years. Mitch couldn’t nod, shake his head, or open his mouth. I don’t think he could even comprehend someone was asking him a question or where he was.
People are essentially pushing around a meat sack to subvert the Republic all the while abusing the hell out of this elderly person.
I would think his constituents would be demanding to know who is acting as their rep, because it isn’t Mitch, and they weren’t elected.
I’m assuming they’re meat sacking him around to keep the Democrat governor of Kentucky from nominating a replacement. Pointless, since a Republican will be taking his seat next term and they lost their majority anyway!
Oh Jesus the chills that just went down my spine.
El Sayed said Van Hollen is eying the presidency, we need him for this first though, this would be an excellent springboard for that.
Schumer and Jeffries have to go. They failed.
Bye Felicia and good riddance. Take your old crusty ass back to the genocidal, child trafficking colony of Israel
Good. Van Hollen for senate majority leader! 2027 call your reps and senators. I’ve called mine!
